Hey, thanks. I'm trying to install the latest beta version of gaim using the ubuntu wiki link to "CompileGaim". Thought I'd compile from source so I could keep my current (distro) version of gaim up and running.

This post was greatly instrumental. Apparently Ubuntu doesn't install the neccessary packages to compile by default.

i'm writing this here as this is the first page that comes up on google when searching for that error.

I guess most slackware users already know this, but...To install glibc on slack, mount the cdrom, go to /slackware/l ("l" stands for libraries) and run "sh install-packages" as root. this will open a dialog with all the packages in that directory. seems i missed glibc on the first install

However the locate returns nothing. ctr1.o also does not exist and the glibc-devel-2.5-42.x86_64.rpm and glibc-devel-2.5-42.i368.rpm are already installed.Can't solve it. If I find an answer I'll post again